I''ve looked around gamedev for some tutorials on networking in C++, but I haven''t had any luck. I wanna be able to do something like telnet or an FTP client or something. dont just say ''its called google'' or something to that effect...

Not to be rude, but Google and askjeeves are your friends. This site may have some. If you want, there was an article writen a few weeks ago that talked about winsock programming with a MUD. I don''t no of any that are good. Also, did you check the networking section for programming on this site?

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Try this

If you want something that provides a simple way to connect many users together then I''d suggest MUNE (Multi-User Networking Engine)

It''s not sockets, and it won''t allow you to create an FTP or Telnet client (or server), but it will connect up many users together.

http://www.hal-pc.org/~johnnie2/winsock.html clicky
and
http://www.sockets.com/ clicky also

good information on both.

John Hattan did a review on a networking engine called RakNet. I''ve done a bit of low-level sockets work a few years ago and it''s not fun - RakNet wraps everything up and provides a lot of great features for making networking easy as hell. It even uses UDP instead of TCP and ensures that all packets arrive and can even make sure they arrive in order (something TCP sockets do automatically but UDP doesn''t). UDP is also faster than TCP so it''s great for games (which the engine is targeted for). Check out John''s review here. The electronic distribution license is even only $99.

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thx all for the help...

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